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Michael Jones McKean's "The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms" at the Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts is featured in Designboom.

Michael Jones McKean's "The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms" at the Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts is reviewed in Flavorwire.

Michael Jones McKean's "The Rainbow: Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms" at the Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts is reviewed in Hyperallergic.

Saul Becker & Stephen Vitiello have collaborated on multimedia works to be the subject of a two-person exhibition "Field Recordings" between May 9 - July 6, 2012 at The Horticultural Society of New York.

Leidy Churchman's work "Cart in Theory," which was recently acquired by the museum, will be included in "Everyday Things: Contemporary Works from the Collection" curated by Judith Tannenbaum at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum during the dates of April 13, 2012 and February 24, 2013.

The gallery's booth at the Dallas Art Fair (featuring Aaron Spangler, Brad Tucker and others) is featured on GalleristNY.

Keltie Ferris is interviewed by Tracy Harnish in the Huffington Post.

The gallery's booth at the Dallas Art Fair (featuring Aaron Spangler and others) is named one of the "top five out-of-town booths" by D Magazine.

Lauren Luloff's exhibition "Recent Small Works" is included on Art in America's blog.

"Evil Dead 2: Kadar Brock & Matt Jones" is reviewed on Beard & Brush.

Lauren Luloff's exhibition "Recent Small Works" is reviewed on Hyperallergic.

"Evil Dead 2: Kadar Brock & Matt Jones" is reviewed on Daily Serving.

Lauren Luloff's exhibition "Recent Small Works" is reviewed in the Huffington Post.

Lauren Luloff's exhibition "Recent Small Works" is reviewed in the Village Voice.

Michael Jones McKean is included in Three Evidentiary Claims, a three person show curated by Rachel Cook at CCS / Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York with Lesley Vance and Erin Shirreff between the dates of March 18 - April 15.

Keltie Ferris is featured in Cate McQuaid's review of "Open Windows" curated by Carroll Dunham at the Addison Gallery of American Art in The Boston Globe.

Lauren Luloff is featured on Gallerist NY's list of "10 Things To Do In New York's Art World Before March 5th."

Sean Horton is quoted in Michael Miller's article on Gallerist NY Gallerist NY about The Armory Show.

Natasza Niedziolka's "White Shadow" is featured in a "mini-review" today by Roberta Smith in The New York Times.

"Evil Dead 2: Kadar Brock & Matt Jones" is reviewed on Berlin Art Link.

Lauren Luloff is featured in NY Art's "30 Artists to Watch in 2012".

Sean Horton is interviewed by Bill Arning in Papercity magazine.

Peter Gallo's "Paint Symptoms" is reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail.

Nina Chanel Abney is profiled in the Huffington Post.

Michael Jones McKean will be featured in Streams of Consciousness: The Histories, Mythologies, and Ecologies of Water curated by Chris Cook at the Salina Art Center, Salina, KS between the dates of November 10, 2011 - March 11, 2012.

Michael Jones McKean is included in Under Construction: Part II, which explores the intersection between construction, architecture, design, and sculpture, at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art between the dates of March 2 - June 3, 2012
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Echo Eggebrecht is mentioned on Marina Cashdan’s list "Top Ten (Plus One) Emerging Artists of 2011" for Huffington Post.

Keltie Ferris' work will be included in a four person exhibition "Open Windows" curated by Carroll Dunham at the at Addison Gallery of American Art between the dates of January 14 - April 8, 2012.

Echo Eggebrecht is featured on Huffington Post's "12 Painters to Watch in 2012".

Leidy Churchman is featured on Marina Cashdan’s list "Top Ten (Plus One) Emerging Artists of 2011" for Huffington Post.

Keltie Ferris is featured on the cover of the Dec/Jan issue of Modern Painters magazine. Scott Indrisek profiles the artist in an article entitled "100 Artists To Watch."

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS has acquired Christmas Morning by Echo Eggebrecht for their permanent collection.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH has acquired three paintings by Guy Rusha for their permanent collection.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH has acquired two photographs by Miroslav Tichý for their permanent collection.

Lauren Luloff is profiled by Johnny Misheff in The New York Times's "Visiting Artists" .

Miroslav Tichý Sun Screen is reviewed by Lauren O'Neill Butler in the November issue of Artforum.

Johnny Misheff interviews A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner in DIS Magazine.

A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner are featured in Kayla Guthrie's "Action Movie" on Artnet.

A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner's Community Action Center was screened earlier this year at the Tate Modern. Community Action Center will also be screened at at the Kampnagel in Hamburg, GLU in Amsterdam, Tallinn Art Hall in Estonia, Konsthall C in Stockholm, and the Center for Sexual Dissidence in Brighton.

Michael Jones Mckean will be featured alongside artists Katarina Riesing, Matt Olson, Derrick Buisch, and others in the inaugural exhibition, Sometimes the things you put things on are more important than the things themselves at Pier 1218, Madison, WI between the dates of October 29, 2011 - December 15th, 2011.

Michael Jones McKean has partnered with a rainwater harvesting and irrigation company for his "The Rainbow Project", which will be on view at the Bemis Center next summer. You can view the project details here.

Aaron Spangler will be featured alongside artists Lari Pittman, Marc Swanson, Rachel Harrison, and others in The Spectacular of Vernacular, curated by Darsie Alexander. The exhibition, which was on view at the Walker Art Center is now at the Contemporary Arts Museum , Houston TX, July 23 - September 18, 2011; and then to Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ, October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012; Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, January 14 - March 18, 2012.

A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner, whose Community Action Center was seen at Horton Gallery, Berlin last year, are named among Out Magazine's 2011 Tastemakers.

Jamie Shovlin's Hiker Meat will be screened as part of The Art of Fear curated by Caryn Coleman at Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn on Wednesday, October 5.

Aaron Spangler will be featured alongside artists Lari Pittman, Marc Swanson, Rachel Harrison, and others in "The Spectacular of Vernacular" curated by Darsie Alexander. The exhibition, which was on view at the Walker Art Center is now at the Contemporary Arts Museum , Houston TX, July 23 - September 18, 2011; and then to Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ, October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012; Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, January 14 - March 18, 2010.

Keltie Ferris is profiled in a second film as a part of Art 21's new documentary series "New York Close Up".

Miroslav Tichý Sun Screen is a Critic's Pick on Artforum.com.

Miroslav Tichý Sun Screen is featured in The New Yorker.

Miroslav Tichý makes Paul Laster's list of "The 13 Most Amazing Outsider Artists of All Time" on Flavorwire.

Miroslav Tichý Sun Screen is featured in The Paris Review.

Leidy Churchman is featured in Karen Rosenberg's review of "LEIDY CELESTE NICOLE" in The New York Times.

"LEIDY CELESTE NICOLE" featuring Leidy Churchman is reviewed on Artnet.com.

Horton Gallery's expansion to Berlin is covered in the New York Observer.

The gallery is pleased to announce that Saul Becker has been awarded a Steep Rock Arts Residency.

[New York & Berlin – June 1, 2011] Horton Gallery is pleased to announce a second season for its project space in Berlin. Located in the legendary Kreuzberg neighborhood, the 1,100 square feet space is two blocks from the Jewish Museum and the Berlinische Galerie and five blocks from the cluster of galleries at Checkpoint Charlie (including well-established German gallerists Michael Werner and Michael Janssen).

The project space was opened in July 2010 with the goal of introducing gallery artists to the vibrant dialogue of Berlin. The gallery mounted significant exhibitions including Painting Treatments by Leidy Churchman, Recent Trompe-l'œil Paintings by Kirk Hayes, Community Action Center by A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner, and Shag featuring Keltie Ferris and Anna Betbeze. Under new director Colin Huerter, the gallery will be presenting a series of group exhibitions focused upon discovering emerging artists based in Berlin, several of which will also have New York solo debuts at Horton Gallery in the future - the first, an exhibition of new paintings by London-born / Berlin-based artist Guy Rusha will open in October. The gallery will continue programming at its Chelsea location with upcoming solo exhibitions including the photographs of the late Miroslav Tichý and new paintings by Peter Gallo, among others.

C. Sean Horton founded Horton Gallery (formerly SUNDAY L.E.S.) in the summer of 2006 and the gallery quickly became an integral part of the emerging group of galleries on the Lower East Side of New York City. In 2009, the gallery opened a second location on the parlor floor of the federal-style house on West 22nd Street in Chelsea, where it consolidated in January of 2011. The gallery and its highly idiosyncratic program have received critical acclaim in Artforum, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Art in America, Time Out New York, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Sun, The Village Voice, and The New York Times.

Before moving from New York to Berlin this past March to direct Horton Gallery Berlin, Colin Huerter worked as a gallery director, freelance curator, essayist, emerging gallery advisor, and consultant to various distinguished private collections. Curatorial projects include Substance Abuse at Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York and Quick While Still at Heist Gallery, New York. Boundary Issues and A Momentary Stay Against Confusion at Horton Gallery, Berlin are his most recent projects. A chapbook of original poems will be published in December of this year.

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American Gothic featuring Aaron Spangler and Alison E. Taylor is reviewed in the Winston-Salem Journal.

Keltie Ferris is profiled in Art 21's new documentary series "New York Close Up". The series debuts June 13th and also features Lucas Blalock, Martha Colburn, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tommy Hartung, Rashid Johnson, Kalup Linzy, Shana Moulton, Mariah Robertson, and Mika Tajima.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI has acquired "Cart in Theory" by Leidy Churchman for their permanent collection. The piece will be included in the exhibition "Everyday Things" curated by Judith Tannenbaum next year.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN has acquired a major sculpture "I Owe My Soul To The Company Store" by Aaron Spangler for their permanent collection. The piece is currently included in The Spectacular of Vernacular, which originated at the Walker and will be traveling to three other venues in the U.S. over the next year.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH has acquired a major sculpture "Populace" by Aaron Spangler for their permanent collection. The piece is currently included in a two-person show with Alison E. Taylor called American Gothic, curated by Steven Matijcio, at Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, between the dates of April 21 - August 21, 2011.

Leidy Churchman is featured in Amy Sillman's article "Ab Ex and Disco Balls: In Defense of Abstract Expressionism II" in Artforum.

Keltie Ferris is mentioned in Nicole Eisenman's comments on Abstract Expressionism in this month's Artforum.

The gallery is pleased to announce that Saul Becker has been awarded a Artist Trust Fellowship.

A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner's film Community Action Center has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Aaron Spangler's work will be included in a two-person show with Alison E. Taylor called American Gothic, curated by Steven Matijcio, at Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, between the dates of April 21 - August 21, 2011.

Keltie Ferris will be giving a brief talk as a part of Artists Present At Noon at the Museum of Modern Art on Monday, April 4th. You can download a recording of the panel discussion here.

Thomas Lowe's solo exhibition They think it's all over is reviewed by Nicholas Wells in The New York Press.

Bryan Zanisnik's video "Preserve" will be included in Not the Way You Remembered curated by Jamillah Jones at The Queens Museum of Art between the dates of April 10 - August 14, 2011.

Keltie Ferris' work will be included in the thirty-two artist survey of recent abstraction The Working Title at Bronx River Art Center between the dates of March 25 - April 29, 2011.

An interview with Sean Horton is featured in this month's New American Paintings.

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The gallery is pleased to announce that the Saatchi Gallery, London has acquired two paintings by Keltie Ferris for its permanent collection. The works will be included in an upcoming survey of painting from the United States.

A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner's film Community Action Center is featured in Ben Davis article "Jeff Koons and the Crisis of the Sexual Object" on Artinfo.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS has acquired This Sex Which Is Not One for their permanent collection. The work is the gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer.

Aaron Spangler will be featured alongside artists Lari Pittman, Marc Swanson, Rachel Harrison, and others in "The Spectacular of Vernacular" curated by Darsie Alexander. The exhibition will be on view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, January 29 - May 8, 2011 and will travel to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX, July 23 - September 18, 2011; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ, October 8, 2011 - January 1, 2012; Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, January 14 - March 18, 2010.

Keltie Ferris's solo exhibition KF + CM 4EVER is reviewed by Roberta Smith in The New York Times.

Keltie Ferris' solo exhibition KF + CM 4EVER is Jerry Saltz's Critic's Pick this week in New York Magazine.

Keltie Ferris is mentioned by Roberta Smith in a summary of this year's art in The New York Times.

Leidy Churchman is profiled on Vogue (French).

Saul Becker is included in the group exhibition The Constructed Landscape curated by Lia Rose Newman at NURTUREart between the dates of January 7, 2011 - February 19, 2011.

Leidy Churchman is included in Sarah Douglas' survey of the NADA Art Fair on Artinfo.

Wallace Whitney's solo exhibition Dream Feed is a Critic's Pick this week in Time Out New York.

Echo Eggebrecht is interviewed by Marina Cashdan in Huffington Post.

Echo Eggebrecht's solo exhibition Spells, Spoils & Lucky Charms is reviewed in the December issue of Art in America.

Keltie Ferris is featured in Charlie Finch's "Abstracting Abstraction" on Artnet.

Leidy Churchman's "Hardbacks", consisting of a large set of facsimile book paintings on wood, will be featured in the lobby of PS1 this weekend during the NY Art Book Fair. Drawing upon the stacks at the Museum of Modern Art Library Library with friend and librarian David Senior, Churchman traces a unique portrait of artists’ publications from the last century.

A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner's film Community Action Center is featured in David Velasco's article "Queer Eyes" in the November issue of Artforum.

Keltie Ferris' work will be included in the inaugural exhibition It's All American, curated by Haley Mellin and Alex Gartenfeld at New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art (NJ MOCA), Asbury Park, NJ between the dates of October 24 - January 15th 2011.

Peter Gallo's work will be included in the group show Fool's House, curated by Nora Griffin, at Neiman Gallery / Columbia University, New York, NY, between the dates of October 11 - October 29, 2010.

Leidy Churchman is mentioned by Faye Hirsch in a review of "Greater New York" at PS1 / MOMA in Art in America.

The gallery is pleased to announce that Michael Jones McKean has been awarded a Artadia / ISCP New York Studio Residency between the dates of October 1 - December 31, 2010. This will provide an opportunity for the Virginia-based artist to be based in New York for the remainder of the year.

Aaron Spangler's work will be included in a group exhibition of works from Takashi Murakami's personal collection at his Kaikai Kiki Co. gallery in Taipei between the dates of August 23 - September 30, 2010.

Keltie Ferris' work will be included in the group show Informal Relations, curated by Scott Grow, at Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN, between the dates of December 3rd 2010 - January 15th 2011. Objective: Abstraction is a group show focused on the diversity in contemporary abstract painting. The exhibition will be presenting works on paper by a diverse group of artists who, each in their own unique way, are exploring the language of abstraction.

Keltie Ferris is mentioned by Roberta Smith in a review of Spray! at D'Amelio Terras in The New York Times.

The gallery is pleased to announce that Leidy Churchman has been awarded a Rijks Akademie Residency in Amsterdam for 2011. The artist was chosen from a pool of over 2000 applicants to be one of 25 participants.

The gallery is pleased to announce that Echo Eggebrecht has been awarded a Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Residency.

Leidy Churchman is mentioned by Roberta Smith in Take Me Out to the Big Show in Queens in The New York Times, which reviews "Greater New York" at P.S.1.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH has acquired several photographs by Eve Fowler for their permanent collection.

The gallery is pleased to announce that Saul Becker has been awarded a NYFA Fellowship.

Leidy Churchman's work will be included in Greater New York curated by by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art; Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art; and Neville Wakefield, MoMA PS1 Senior Curatorial Advisor. The exhibition is on view at P.S.1 between the dates of May 23 – October 18, 2010.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Dallas Museum of Art has acquired Like Achilles, 2009 for their permanent collection.

Aaron Spangler's solo exhibition Government Whore is reviewed by Joseph Wolin in Time Out New York. Read it here.

Aaron Spangler is featured in Doug McClemont's New York Highlights on Saatchi Online Magazine.

The gallery is pleased to announce that Aaron Spangler has been awarded a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Visual Artists.

The gallery is pleased to announce that Michael Jones McKean has been awarded a fellowship to assist in "research and artistic creation" from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.

Leidy Churchman is mentioned by Roberta Smith in Painting in the 21st Century: It’s Not Dry Yet, in The New York Times.

Michael Jones McKean's work will be included in Manif d'art 5, Biennale de Quebec, curated by Sylvie Fortin, between the dates of May 1 – June 13, 2010.

Sean Horton is listed as an Up-and-Coming Dealer in "East Coast Versus West Coast Rivalry: Who are the art world machers making the cities what they are today?"

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Saul Becker will also have a outdoor sculpture on view in Cityscape: Surveying the Urban Biotope at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY, from May 2 through August 1, 2010.

Keltie Ferris is featured in The Art Newspaper in "Artists under 35 at The Armory Show: Keltie Ferris - Bringing back the boogie" by Emily Sharpe.

Saul Becker has been awarded residencies with The Arctic Circle 2010 Expedition and Gros Morne Artist in Residence, Newfoundland, Canada. Gros Morne residency is in partnership with Parks Canada and The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery. Saul Becker will be traveling in the Arctic Circle and Newfoundland this year gathering source imagery for his upcoming works.

Saul Becker has been awarded The Lighton International Artists Exchange Program travel grant with The Kansas City Artist's Coalition.

Writing for New York Magazine Jerry Saltz states: "I've seen three excellent artists emerge since the start of the new century: Cyprien Gaillard, Leidy Churchman, and now Josephine Halvorson."

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Leidy Churchman is named as one of "The Nifty 50: America's Up-and-Coming" in T New York Times Style Magazine: "13. The New York artist LEIDY CHURCHMAN uses his transgender status to explore the awkward gray areas in all of us. His sculptures and works on crudely painted wood blur the line between insider and outsider art with fresh and welcome humor."

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A sculpture by Saul Becker will be included in the 01SJ Biennial, in a variety of locations throughout San Jose, CA, between the dates of September 16 - 19, 2010. The 01SJ Biennial–‘Build Your Own World’ is a multi-disciplinary festival that focuses on art, technology and digital culture.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA has received The General, 1992 as a gift for their permanent collection.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Pecci Museum, or the Centro per l'Arte Contempranea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy, has acquired The Harpooner, 2008 for their permanent collection.

Jackie Saccoccio interviews Carroll Dunham & Keltie Ferris for Bomb magazine's website. Read it here.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS has acquired Gravity for their permanent collection. The work is the gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation.

Sean Horton is included in "Young Power" alongside Kathy Grayson, Nicola Vassell, Yasmil Raymond, Sunny Rahbar & Claudia Cellini, and Joao Ribas in Art + Auction magazine's annual edition featuring the "art world's most influential people."

Christopher Cook interviews artist Keltie Ferris on her first solo museum exhibition Keltie Ferris: Man-Eaters for ARTcasts in collaboration with KCUR.org / NPR. The interview is available for download here.

The exhibition is also reviewed by Laura Spencer for KCUR / NPR with quotes by Bruce Hartman and Christopher Cook. The review is available for download here.

Keltie Ferris' work will be included in Aberrant Abstraction at the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS between the dates of November 20 - January 31, 2010. This group exhibition showcases artists who extend the notion of painting into three-dimensional forms and who often use alternative materials including found objects: Keltie Ferris, Chris Martin, Cordy Ryman, and Agathe Snow.

Keltie Ferris' work will be included in Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture curated by Debra Singer at The Kitchen, New York, NY between the dates of November 13 - January 15, 2010. This group exhibition brings together more than twenty New York-based artists whose works engage diverging conceptual approaches to abstract painting and question the fundamental roots of the medium’s modernist legacies: Richard Aldrich, Polly Apfelbaum, Kerstin Brätsch, Jessica Dickinson, Cheryl Donegan, Keltie Ferris, Wade Guyton, Jaya Howey, Alex Hubbard, Jacqueline Humphries, Jacob Kassay, Jutta Koether, Nate Lowman, Seth Price, R.H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne, Davis Rhodes, Cheyney Thompson, Patricia Treib, Charline von Heyl, and Kelley Walker.

Bryan Zanisnik's solo exhibition Dry Bones Can Harm No Man is reviewed by Joseph Wolin for Artforum.com (available for download below).

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Keltie Ferris' solo museum debut Man-Eaters will be on view at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO between the dates of October 23, 2009 - February 13, 2010. A publication with an essay by Michelle Grabner will accompany the exhibition.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS has acquired Beard Gods II for their permanent collection.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS has acquired Man-Eaters for their permanent collection. The work is the gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation in honor of Harrison Jedel.

Leidy Churchman's solo exhibition Good Afternoon! is reviewed by Roberta Smith for The New York Times (available for download below).

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The gallery is pleased to announce that the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO has acquired The Wrestler for their permanent collection.

Lauren Luloff is featured in The Village Voice's "Canvasing the Neighborhood" by Martha Schwendener.

Annick Ligtermoet's solo exhibition De Verontrustende Wereld is reviewed by Mara Hoberman for Artforum.com (available for download below).

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Saul Becker's solo exhibition Vistas and Vacant Lots is reviewed by Ken Johnson forThe New York Times (available for download below).

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The gallery is pleased to announce that the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS has acquired 40 Watts Warmth Is Still Warm for their permanent collection.

The gallery is pleased to announce that the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX has acquired Stairs (For Kelson) for their permanent collection.

Kirk Hayes's solo exhibition Launched To Sink is reviewed by Ken Johnson for The New York Times (available for download below).

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The gallery is pleased to announce that Kirk Hayes has been awarded a painting grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.

Keltie Ferris' solo exhibition Dear Sir or Madame is reviewed by Joseph Wolin forModern Painters (available for download below).

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Keltie Ferris' solo exhibition Dear Sir or Madame is reviewed by Martha Schwendener for Artforum (available for download below).

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Keltie Ferris' solo exhibition Dear Sir or Madame is reviewed by Karen Rosenberg forThe New York Times (available for download below).

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Sean Horton, who opened a tiny storefront gallery called SUNDAY on the Lower East Side three years ago, has extended his initial short-term rental of the parlor floor of the federal-style house on West 22nd Street...Mr. Horton, whose taste runs to unknown artists who make quirky paintings...said Chelsea “has a need for young art dealers and young artists.” - Smith, Roberta. "The Mood of the Market, as Measured in the Galleries." New York Times. September 3, 2009.

Leidy Churchman’s sly, tenderly wrought paintings both sort out and blur issues of gender and sexual orientation with a quasi-naïve, sometimes folkish style. His use of oil on beautifully grained wood panels that are often left partly bare enhances the glow of wholesome normalcy...Taut and deliberate, Mr. Churchman’s paintings brim with emotion and quietly, but surely, form a remarkable debut. - Smith, Roberta. "Art in Review." The New York Times. July 17, 2009.

My first stop was Sunday, a small gallery that shows a lot of good, young painters, including Lauren Luloff, whose canvases encrusted with rumpled bedsheets offer smart reconsiderations of Rauschenberg's combines. - Martha Schwendener. "Canvasing the Neighborhood." April 29, 2009.

Kirk Hayes is a find. A self-taught painter who works as a groundskeeper at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Tex. Mr. Hayes, 50, creates witty and amazingly effective trompe l’oeil paintings. - Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review." The New York Times. November 8, 2008.

SUNDAY, established in October 2006 by Sean Horton in a modest storefront space on Eldridge near Houston Street, the district's approximate northern boundary. Horton is one of numerous dealers who have adopted the term "inter-generational" to describe their programs. SUNDAY's recent show of small-scaled, materially and narratively layered work by Peter Gallo defied a quick scan. - Maine, Stephen. “Mapping New Territory.” Art In America. March 2008.

On the subject of holiness and accessibility, Texas-born independent curator Clayton Sean Horton also had a splendid notion: starting a New York gallery that would be open on Sundays, called SUNDAY. Located in a residential building, SUNDAY defines itself as humble and domestic, providing an "intimate, casual environment for viewing art." - Papernik, Erica. “New York’s LES.” Flash Art. March 2008.

Just when it seemed like Manhattan real-estate prices had made it impossible for art galleries to cluster in another neighborhood, the Lower East Side has emerged as a real and non-annoying place for looking at art. There are only around 30 galleries, spread out, meaning you have to take a breather as you walk between shows. The neighborhood is mixed-up and interesting; the spaces are small and intimate and call to mind the DIY early East Village. Galleries aren't better because they're here or worse because they're in Chelsea - and in a few years, the Lower East Side may be saturated. For now, however, it's lovely. - Saltz, Jerry. “The Year in Art – Best New Scene – L.E.S.” New York Magazine. December 2007.

I also saw gallerists and artists taking exactly the right kind of risks. First time NADA exhibitor SUNDAY immediately comes to mind, his booth filled with the layered material sculptures of Michael Jones McKean. It’s a ballsy move; objects don’t sell as easily as paintings, they are pricey to transport, and there’s no back up if the work doesn’t sell...McKean’s montage sculptures achieve a level of accomplishment in space activation and exhibition design I have yet to see matched at any art fair, including Basel. What’s more, the work itself is amongst the best I’ve seen, the negative and positive space creating complexity and surface to the work. The arrangements themselves would seem almost too perfectly placed, were it not for the use rich textiles, which demand deliberation of that sort. - Johnson, Paddy. “Risk Taking at NADA.” Art Fag City. December 2007.

Peter Gallo, who lives in rural Vermont and has an excellent show at SUNDAY. A collagist and draftsman of considerable invention, Mr. Gallo is also an art critic and historian, a psychiatric social worker and a wide-ranging reader and music lover, all of which comes through in intensely referential work that embraces Freud, Roland Barthes, Dusty Springfield, gay pornography and ornithology. Mr. Gallo’s art has an insider-outsider look that can, in other hands, turn precious and generic, but he makes it work. I lingered over each piece, and if I had to choose a favorite artist from my tour, he would certainly be on the shortlist. - Cotter, Holland. "An Upbeat Moment for a Downtrodden Area." The New York Times. December 1, 2007.

SUNDAY...exudes a spunky determination, using every square inch of its barely-bigger-than-a-bread-box space to showcase emerging figures; and in an LES context where art venues seem embedded in the comings and goings of ordinary life. - Singer, Debra. “On the Ground: New York.” Artforum. December 2007.

SUNDAY was among the first of the recent wave of galleries to open on the Lower East Side...enthusiastically promoting a fledgling scene before there really was a scene to speak of. As one of the original pioneers, SUNDAY has already established a reputation for installations, video and other works that can be difficult to sell. - Chambers, Chris. “Galleries Migrate to the Lower East Side.” Contemporary. November 2007.

The current crop of shows bolsters the optimism and idealism that goes with a pioneer spirit. The gallery SUNDAY, for instance, has a show by the Vermont painter Peter Gallo that fuses word-play and facture in a rare meeting of the tactile and the cerebral. - Cohen, David. “Catching the Crest…” The New York Sun. November 8, 2007.

For his New York solo debut, the Virginia-based Michael Jones McKean has created several allegorical installations that investigate themes of conquest and power. Objects associated with power and order, ranging from a throne to a large boom box to a conquistador helmet, are juxtaposed with symbols of failure and chaos, such as relics from Russian space disasters and uncontrollable natural forces, like a meteorite and unformed clay. - Hanley, William. "Open Season in New York." Artinfo. September 13, 2007.

SUNDAY owner and former Texan, C. Sean Horton, turned his Lower East Side storefront gallery over to Schwarz, a Dallas native, who fully co-opted the space. The artist set up a reception area in the front of the gallery with a pair of modish armchairs, a low table and a presentation binder. The vibe is pure salesmanship, a cue (whether literal or ironic) to the dealer Horton to “get busy.” - Ewing, John. "Ludwig Schwarz: The Four Seasons (Season Premier)" Artlies. August 2007.

"Vision Sleep A Bad Bad Xmas for Cursed Earth!" is a sculptural installation pairing the works of Brooklyn artist Hilary Baldwin, and the late Louisiana artist Royal Robertson. Robertson was trained as a commercial sign painter, and studied studio art in a course advertised on the back of a matchbook. He created an installation of signs outside of his home, all of which were destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. - Chambers, Christopher. New York Sun. August 2007.

Jacques Louis Vidal's appearance at SUNDAY is more than a show; it's a way of art, a two-way street for both the artist and the viewer. At the opening reception of "Wood Folks is Good Folks" the artist enlisted himself and some half dozen volunteers in a performance, which literally wound through (and into) the entire gallery installation. - Wagner, James. "Jacques Louis Vidal and the wooden folks at SUNDAY." JamesWagner.com July 2007.

C. Sean Horton is an avuncular, bearded art junkie who loves vintage country western music and Dr. Pepper. Horton literally built the interior of SUNDAY with his own hands. An artist himself, his keen eye has been honed from inside the studio, and it shows. In its first several months, the gallery has mounted a string of impressive exhibitions including Ed Blackburn's biblically inspired paintings and Gayleen Aiken's diaristic crayon and pen reflections on her native Vermont community. - McAdams, Shane. “The Wild West of NYC’s Galleries.” The Villager. April 25, 2007.

Could downtown, and particularly the Lower East Side, become the next Chelsea? The area already sports a crop of galleries. Maccarone and Canada popped up in 2001, followed by galleries like Reena Spaulings Fine Art, housed in two small rooms of a former brothel. The past year has seen the opening of at least four more, including SUNDAY, run by C. Sean Horton. - Douglas, Sarah. “What’s Next>>Eastward, Ho!” Art + Auction. January 2007.

How fitting to usher in SUNDAY, a new gallery in New York’s Lower East Side, with straight-up biblical paintings by Texas-native, Ed Blackburn. Blackburn, who has devoted his practice to biblical subject matter since the late 1980’s, visualizes canonical stories from the Good Book in a quasi-classical way. Part die Brücke wood-cut, part 1960’s paint-by-numbers and part Saturday morning super-hero cartoons, Blackburn’s paintings and drawings depict Sunday school-style narratives through wonderfully dynamic compositions and graphically bold terms. - Zechella, Elizabeth. "Ed Blackburn at Sunday." ...might be good. November 17, 2006.